Leaf-cutter.



No. 685,676. Patented Oct. 29.1901.

a. s. DOLLOFF.

LEAF CUTTER.

(Application filed Feb. 6, 1901.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

GEORGE S. DOLLOFF, OF NEEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I-IALF TO DAVID Y. MORRISON, OF REVERE, MASSACHUSETTS.

LEAF-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 685,676, dated October 29, 1901.

Application filed February 6, 1901. Serial No. 46,224. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known-that I, GEORGE S. DOLLOFF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Needliam, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Leaf-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a simple, effective, and convenient device for cutting the leaves of books, magazines, &c., and it is carried.

out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein-' Figure 1 represents the improved leaf-cutter attached to the book or magazine. Fig. 2 represents such leaf-cutter detached therefrom and in position for use, and Fig. 3 represents a detail side elevation of said leafcutter before being attached to the book or magazine.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

The said improved leaf-cutter consists of a thin flexible plate or sheet A, preferably made of cardboard, bristol-board, leatherboard, celluloid, hard rubber, or other suitable fieXible material, and it is preferably made of the shape shown in the drawings; but such exact shape as shown is not essential, and it may be made of any other desired shape or configuration without departing from the essence of my invention. In one piece with said leaf-cutter A is made a stub B, which is attached to the book or magazine 0 in any suitable manner. I11 practice I prefer to attach such stub permanently to the book or magazine by binding it betweentwo of the leaves in the latter; but if so desired it may be attached by means of suitable adhesive material or otherwise secured permanently in position between the cover and one of the leaves, or to the cover or leaf, or between a pair of successive leaves of the book or magazine, as may be most practicable and convenient.

At the junction of the leaf-cutter A and its stub B isa row of perforations D, so as to enable the leaf-cutter A to be readily detached from the stub B whenever it is desired to use the leaf-cutter for the purpose of cutting the 56 leaves in the book or magazine, as represented in Fig. 2. Instead of making such row of perforations D the device may be scored at the junction of the blade A and stub B to enable the said blade to be readily detached 5 5 from the stub whenever it is desired to use the leaf-cutter.

It will be noticed that until used the leafcutter is attached to the book or magazine and is therefore not liable to become detached 60 or to drop out from the book or magazine.

When it is desired to use the leaf-cutter, all that is needed to do is to tear the blade or cutter A from the stub B, thus enabling the reader to use the blade or sheetA as adevice a perforated or scored portion D, so as to permit of the detachment of the leaf-cutter A, from the said stub when it is desired to cut 7 the leaves of the book or magazine substantially as herein set forth and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 8o my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE S. DOLLOFF. Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDRIZIN, RICHARD O. ULBRITH. 

